Scaffolding Student Thinking About Setting, Mood, and Diction by Buffy J. Hamilton (Living in the Layers)

Those of you who follow me on Twitter know I am terribly unhappy with the first unit of study our school has been working with—the Lucy Calkins Deep Study of Character.  Concerns I have include: Lack of academic vocabulary that I know my students will be expected to know on state tests and in fut…

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